The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present ...

It rains on the sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know why. Unlike water that falls from the sky on Earth, solar rain happens in the ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

Amanda Stricklan, who was raised in Anchorage, presented her dissertation Wednesday during a session at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage. Stricklan, a doctoral candidate in ...

Snow is the classic of any winter precipitation and forms when temperatures are at or below freezing in the cloud and at to ...